With the group exhibition ‘herzwärts wild’, which builds on the successful project of the same name from 2022–2025, the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK) in Frankfurt (Oder) invites visitors to rediscover the turbulent years of upheaval in the 1980s and 1990s from a unique perspective. The focus is on works by female artists from the GDR and the People’s Republic of Poland, whose works powerfully convey stories of social change, personal self-assertion and artistic freedom. 

“Stone Witnesses – Not Just Spectators. Architectural Photography from East and West Prussia” is the title of the new exhibition, which opened on Saturday 11 July in the Martyrs’ Choir of St Mary’s Church in Frankfurt (Oder). The German-Polish travelling exhibition features photographs of historic buildings from East and West Prussia by the art historian and professor Christofer Herrmann.

During the holiday period, the vetting and registration process for apprenticeship contracts is in full swing at Brandenburg’s three Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHK). The Brandenburg apprenticeship market offers school leavers a wide range of training opportunities to get their careers off to a good start. The Brandenburg IHKs have compiled a list of apprenticeship places, companies offering work experience placements and holiday jobs, as well as a wide range of advisory services, events and application tips.

It all began 35 years ago with a single training programme commissioned by the employment services. Today, the Fürstenwalde Training Centre run by Kolping Bildung Deutschland is one of the most important partners for education and integration in Eastern Brandenburg – offering programmes in joint vocational training, language and integration support, and career guidance for young people. The team is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year.

In the early 1990s – Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice were separated by a bridge with strict border controls and long queues – it was a bold and unprecedented idea: the establishment of a joint cross-border German-Polish teaching and research institution. Some three decades later, Dr Krzysztof Wojciechowski, the long-standing director and architect of the Collegium Polonicum, looks back on the ‘dream of a border university’. 

Three days of international music, performances, workshops and guided tours – that’s the student-organised festival “HE(A)RING – wortzart”, running from Friday 10 July to Sunday 12 July in the garden of the Kleist Museum. As part of the HanseStadtFest “Bunter Hering”, this festival invites visitors to a musical oasis. In a relaxed atmosphere, they can enjoy performances by musicians from Germany, Poland and beyond, take part in creative workshops and discover the Kleist Museum on guided tours. 

The RE 1 regional express line is one of the busiest regional express lines in Germany. The signatories of this appeal therefore welcome Deutsche Bahn’s announcement that it will invest in the modernisation of this line. Nevertheless, the construction work must not cut off the capital region, Eastern Brandenburg and the neighbouring Polish region from one another for months on end, as this would have drastic consequences for a large number of businesses, workers and institutions in Eastern Brandenburg and Poland.

If you’re still looking for a varied holiday experience for the 2026 summer holidays, or would like to start planning a late-summer break on the water, now is your chance: At the Blossin Youth Education Centre, there are still a few places left on two summer holiday camps in July/August, as well as places available on the sailing and windsurfing courses in August/September. 

The East Brandenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Frankfurt (Oder) – East Brandenburg Region have published their first joint brochure, entitled “Facts and Figures – Key Statistics for East Brandenburg”, containing comprehensive regional indicators – focusing on East Brandenburg as a business location.

The Brandenburg Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHKs) are calling on member companies that provide apprenticeships to ‘throw in the towel’. This is purely symbolic, as part of a major social media photo and video campaign to mark the start of the summer holidays. Many companies are still looking for interested young people to start apprenticeships, even at the last minute before the training begins. The “Towel Challenge” is designed to provide wide-reaching support to the local economy in its search for new recruits.